# Why isn't "Ricer" considered racist?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-ricer-considered-racist/28361>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 7, 2000, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-ricer-considered-racist/28361 "2000-08-07T01:46:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-ricer-considered-racist/28361/21 "2003-08-04T16:06:01Z")

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Good question! He hasn’t posted on the Unaboard since September. Never was a guy to keep quiet, either. I tried emailing him. We’ll see what happens.

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**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-ricer-considered-racist/28361/22 "2003-08-05T00:28:38Z")

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I can answer the OP (after 3 years!)  
Why is ricer a racist comment?  
Simple, rice, isn’t a race.

Geez was this question that hard?

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**Author:** ![Sinful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Sinful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinful)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-ricer-considered-racist/28361/23 "2003-08-05T00:30:44Z")

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Cracker isn’t a race.

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**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-ricer-considered-racist/28361/24 "2003-08-05T03:27:07Z")

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Ironically, the old Japanese name for America translates to ‘Rice Country’, so techincally they could say the same thing about Chevys and Harleys.

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**Author:** ![aaslatten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@aaslatten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaslatten)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-ricer-considered-racist/28361/25 "2003-08-05T03:34:35Z")

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It’s mildly offensive, I guess, but I think it’s because it’s too humorous (as \*\*vandal[b\] point out) and useful to be really offensive.

Remember when people used to call those big radios “ghetto blasters”? It wasn’t really offensive, because it was funny and colorful and not really directed at a race.

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**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-ricer-considered-racist/28361/26 "2003-08-05T06:36:16Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Sinful \*  
> \*\*Cracker isn’t a race. \*\*

Nor is it rice.

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